# @nickpappasmd on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbHTqzIpFms
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68298026-nickpappasmd-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-22T23:49:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nick Pappas, MD (@nickpappasmd) — https://gondola.cc/nickpappasmd

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💰🏥 Did You Know Medicare Pays A Hospital 2–3× More Than An Ambulatory Surgery Center For The Exact Same Outpatient Procedure? 🤯

⚖️ A growing push for site-neutral payments would make Medicare reimburse the same amount for many outpatient procedures, regardless of whether they’re performed in a hospital outpatient department or an ambulatory surgery center (ASC), when it’s appropriate to do so.

📉 Supporters believe this could:
💵 Lower healthcare costs
💰 Reduce Medicare spending
🙌 Decrease patients’ out-of-pocket expenses
🏥 Encourage more care in high-quality, lower-cost outpatient settings

🚑 Hospitals, on the other hand, argue that higher reimbursement helps support emergency departments, trauma care, and other services that ASCs don’t provide.

🤔 This is a complex issue with real implications for patients, physicians, hospitals, and taxpayers. 

🚨 Just remember…if Medicare starts doing this, all the commercial insurance companies will likely follow.

💬 What do you think—should Medicare pay the same amount for the same outpatient procedure regardless of where it’s performed?

#medicare #healthcare #orthopedics #ambulatorysurgerycenter #healthpolicy

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healthpolicy, ambulatorysurgerycenter, healthcare, orthopedics, medicare

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